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Hard News: Meet me at Camera 2: White, in reply to Moz,
I quite like the idea of using privilege against itself. Being the white bloke who stands up and derails a panel that’s talking at the women present by saying “hey, you rich white men are ignoring the experts on this subject who are right here"… is more likely to be productive than the existing discussion.
Yep, it often takes a Nixon-in-China approach to take a lead.
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If anyone hasn’t already seen it, XTOTL’s cartoon on privilege (via The Wireless) neatly sums it up. And yet another real-life example has surfaced in the form of Brandon Lipman. (Of Auckland, that is, not of San Francisco.)
If there’s only one thing right now that makes me threaten to break my screen in half, it’s when privilege, cronyism and nepotism are repackaged as ‘bootstraps’ and ‘honest hard work’. It’s a favourite marketing ploy of the nouveau riche, and sadly it works all too well - a classic case of the Dunning-Kruger effect and the Peter Principle.
Whenever you hear such hypocrisy from such people, just add the following disclaimer: “Terms & conditions may apply.”
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Hard News: Campbell interviewed, in reply to Bart Janssen,
But she is in exactly the same place as most scientists now. Like journalism, my own profession is owned and run by white male managers who neither understand nor care about what is done “at the coalface”. Their last job was selling a sharemarket or selling milk powder to the Japanese – their next job could be anything so long as the remuneration package is better.
In other words, private equity shills. It’s not exaggerating to describe it as ‘fast food finance’ or simply ‘McFinance’.
Somehow we have all collectively decided that managers are somehow mystical beings who deserve more money and absolute power over our lives. Most times we have vastly more knowledge and experience than they – yet they make the decisions.
We’ve been led down the blind alley that somehow anyone can be a CEO, or that we're all CEOs now.
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Access: Disability as a wicked policy problem, in reply to Sacha,
one of the authors of that report for the right-wing NZ Initiative sings the praises of social bonds, after this claim.
House prices will no longer be an issue for the insanity defence lawyers out there, if a worst case scenario comes to pass.
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In an extraordinary New Zealand Herald column, John Roughan slated Campbell Live as “this country’s little Fox [News],” – but from the left – a programme whose creators “made it their mission to side with people against power and express the pain and frustrations of those on one side of a problem.”
Pot, kettle, black, Mr Roughan.
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Hard News: The epitome of reason, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
I know Builders and I know Truck drivers and I know some present and past Forestry workers. ALL of them say the best timber is on the wharves. ALL of them are a part of logging it, getting it there, or have to build with inferior choices. I just watched an entire forest felled at the end of the road, all of it heading to Marsden Wharf. Take a drive through the Brynderwyns, Waipu Cove side is felled, gone to the Wharf and as logs, worth little compared to processed on return, because ,you guessed it, it comes back worth top dollar! Why anyone in Govt. would think that giving China farms and information, and quality cheap timber would have no effect on our 2 industries, should have their heads read by a shrink.
We have the curious case of local sawmills that could turn out value-added product shutting down left right & centre for some years now - most likely I suspect due to currency volatility - while Fletchers and Carters solidify their duopoly on building materials.
And we keep getting told that NZ remains over-reliant on exporting primary products, while much of our know-how still has to go overseas because there's no gainful work for them here, or they get shouted down as 'PC gone mad'. Shaun Hendy's Get Off The Grass comes to mind.
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Hard News: Campbell Live: A Disturbance…, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
http://thedailyblog.co.nz/2015/05/29/aotearoa-pie-the-day-campbell-live-died/
Clever...
All sing along now...
Don't wanna be an Aotearoan idiot
Don't want a nation under the new media
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mind fuck Aotearoa -
Hard News: Campbell Live: A Disturbance…, in reply to Sacha,
Just great. The program I used turns out to be crippleware and only got about the first half. Might have to grab the rest of it later.
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Tonight I'm going to try and record the on-demand stream of the final Campbell Live broadcast for posterity.
As for Hosking and all the other usual suspects, we can't just wait for him to go 'cheeky darkie' or 'Sheila Dikshit', so we need to set some kind of trap for him that'll have the advertisers pull the rug from under him. Any ideas? A boycott can only go so far.
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Hard News: Campbell Live: A Disturbance…, in reply to Robert Fox,
Yup – I keep harping on about this but The Press has been no better than average on the Insurance and EQC issues. The news reporting and features have been there but there is only a resigned editorial ambivalence towards the plight of their readers who are still suffering. If only The Press would hold the government to the same standards it expects from the Council
Maybe Generalissimo Brownlee has cowed them into submission?